Curtain-ring



(N6 Model.)

J. W. LESLIE.

CURTAIN RING.

Patented Nov. 2,1897.

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JAMES W. LESLIE, OF MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS.

CURTAIN-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,795, dated November 2, 1897.

Application filed September 18, 1896. Serial No. 606 ,191. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern! Be it known that 1, JAMES W. LEsLIE, of

Melrose, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Curtain-Rings, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Portieres,curtains,and the like are now generally attached to a series of carriers, usually rings, which are supported by and adapted to move longitudinally upon a rod or pole, and it is highly desirable that'the rings should move longitudinally with perfect freedom over the rod or pole and have a minimum tendency to ness of construction, the ring being properly maintained on a track with which the pole is preferably provided.

The details of my invention and further advantages thereof will be more fully described in the accompanying specification and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view showing in cross-section a curtain-rod having a track and provided with a curtain-ring embodyingone form of my invention, the latter being partly broken away and in section in order to show the detailed construction thereof. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section taken on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. of one of the journal-supports. Fig. dis a cross-sectional view of a pole having a different track with a ring cooperating therewith, showing another form of my invention; and Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view of still another form of pole.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the rod A, having an external covering a, preferably of sheetbrass, and a raised track a, may be of any usual kind.

The ring B is preferably a hollow metal ring, such as is'in common use in curtain-rod fixtures, although my invention is not re- Fig. 3 is a detail elevationstricted to a hollow ring. The ring is provided with a roller-receiving opening, and in this instance I provide such opening by separating the ring at such place or places as I desire to provide with a roller, one such roller being herein shown mounted between the ends of the non-continuousring. The opposing ends of the ring are provided with journal-bearing supports 0, one of which is shown in elevation in Fig. 3. These bearings are of any suitable shape, being herein shown as circular or disk-like in outline, and are provided eccentrically with a' laterally-projecting hub c, the latter being struck up, turned, or otherwise secured thereto and adapted to fit snugly within-the end of the ring B, the hub 0 being preferably slightly set in from the adjacent periphery of the support C, so as to form therewith a shoulder or flange c,extending'substantially flush with the outside surface of the ring B, all as shown in Fig 1. V v

The support 0 is secured in place by any suitable means, as by brazing or soldering the hub c to the inner surface of the ring B. The hubs c not only serve as a means of correctly positioning the supports 0 and of securing thefsame to the ring, but they also serve to give great strength and permanence to the supports and render the roller-bearing extremely rigid, and from the eccentric location of the hubs a part of each disk or support projects beyond the exterior of the ring.

' The projecting portion of each of the supports 0 is provided with a perforation 0 shown in Figs. 1 and 2 as flush at its lower edge with the upper surface of the ring B. Through the perforations c is secured in any suitable manner an axle-bearing D for the roller E. This axle may, if desired, be prolonged at either end, as shown in Fig. 1, the ends being preferably tapered and secured at their outer ends d to the ringB, and I have shown the ends (1 in Fig. 1 as inserted through holes in the ring B and clenched therein on the under side.

. From an inspection of Figs. 1 and 2 it will be seen that the rollerE is journaled on the rings eccentrically to the median line thereof,

and bysuch expression median line I mean a line passing through the center of any crosssection of the ring, said line in the case of a circular ring having as its center the center of the ring. This construction provides an extremely strong brace, so that the ring will withstand an un usual amount of rough usage.

The roller E maybe mounted directly on the axle D, although I prefer to interpose a sleeve F, the latter serving to prevent the supports 0 from being pinched together by any possibility so as to interfere with the free turning of the roller E.

The rolling support for the ring may be of any desired pattern, but I prefer to make it with two separated annular bearing or tread portions 0 6, adapted to travel 011 the track, as a, Figs 1 and 2, the distance between the tread portions being less than the width of the track.

The lower ends of the supports 0 serve as guards, having the track a between them, and they act as stops to maintain the roller in proper engagement with the track.

The center of gravity of the ring is materially lowered by mounting the roller as described, and this,taken in connection with the inclosing of the track by the stops or guards, renders it almost impossible that the roller should get off of the track.

In Fig. 4 I have shown the curtain-pole P as longitudinally recessed along its top and provided with a track 17 on the bottom of the recess, the pole and track being preferably covered with thin sheet metal, as 19 The ring R is shown as hollow and non-continuous, as in Fig. 1, and disk-like supports 0, having eccentric hubs r, are secured in the ring ends, in this instance by indenting the material of the ring and impressing it, as at TX, into the hubs 1", but the extended portions of the supports are shown as projecting within the rin A roller E, such as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is rotatably mounted between the supports 7* on a pin h, having reduced ends h extended through holes in said supports and upset or headed, and preferably a sleeve h is interposed between the main body of the pin and the roller. The pin is eccentric to the median line of the ring and adjacent the inner circumference of the ring, so that the roller and the supports extend down into the recess of the pole I the tread-surface e e of the roller traveling upon the covered track 2). Such a construction is convenient when it is desired to avoid any projecting part of the roller or its supports above the ring, and it will be readily seen that the supports may be set at any angle relative to the plane of the ring as may be desired or convenient.

In Fig. 5 the pole M is provided with a longitudinal recess having outwardly-flared sides m, and the cover m of the roll is carried over said walls and then over a raised track If on the bottom of the recess. The cover is concaved at m between the sides and the track, and the inclined sides act to direct the roller upon the track should it become displaced.

In Fig. 4 the supports 0' project within the sides of the recess in the pole and act as stops to prevent undue lateral movement of the ring.

I do not restrict myself to the precise construction herein shown and described, inasmuch as the same may be changed in various particulars without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. A curtain-ring having a roller-receiving opening, and a roller mounted therein having two separated annular tread portions extended beyond the surface of the ring at one side thereof, and within the said surface at the other side, combined with a curtain-pole having a single track convex in cross-section raised above the surface of the pole, upon which the roller rotates in two separated linear paths, the ends of the ring at each side of the track cooperating therewith to prevent undue lateral movement of said ring, substantially as described.

2. A non-continuous curtain-ring,disk-like roller-supports secured to the adjacent ends of the ring and extended outwardly beyond the periphery thereof, and a roller rotatably mounted in the extended portions of said supports, the axis of the roller being exterior to the median line of the ring, with the periphery of the roller between the ends of the ring outside of or beyond the inner circumference of the ring, substantially as described.

3. A curtain-ring having a roller-receiving opening, combined with supports having eccentric hubs and apertures, said hubs being respectively-secured within the sides of the roller-receiving opening of the ring, a journal mounted in the aperture and a roller carried by the journal, substantially as described.

4. A curtain-ring having a roller-receiving opening, combined with disk-like supports of greater area than the cross-section of the ring and having eccentrically-located hubs thereon, said hubs being respectively secured to the sides of the roller-receiving opening of the ring, a journal mounted in the supports eccentric to the median line of the ring, a sleeve on the journal between the supports, and a roller mounted on the sleeve, substantially as described.

5. A curtain-ring having a roller-receivin g opening, combined with disk-like supports secured to the sides of said opening and extended beyond the surface of the ring, and a roller jonrnaled in the extended portions of said supports, substantially as described.

6. In combination with the opposing ends centric hubs in their lower portions, said hubs In testimony whereof I have signed my being respectively secured within said opposname to this specification in the presence of Io ing ends of the ring, an axle mounted in said two subscribing Witnesses. perforations, said axle being extended at 5 either end beyond said perforations, and hav- JAMES LESLIE ing its said ends secured to the curtain-ring, Witnesses: and a roller mounted on said axle between JOHN G. EDWARDS,

said supports, substantially as described. ALEX. O. PROUDFIT. 

